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It's amazing they're willing to make that the plan after Suicide Squad failed so dramatically and MK1's monetisation has been met with extreme backlash.

Gerstmann compared it with losing a bet and continuing to make the same bet.

The Jurassic Park Survival mod for Warcraft 3.

Probably like... 2007, i was unemployed and had a friend who was unemployed.

You don't need to qualify wanting a wired mouse i f***ing hate battery powered things. I use a Logitech G Pro and it's easily the best mouse i've ever had.

I experimented with ergonomic and fancy mouse shapes but everything gave me wrist pain, i have large hands and thought i needed something larger or specialised but actually a bog standard boring mouse shape is the best for me, specifically i need an area on the side for my ring finger to rest on and it's surprising how many mice have a sharp bit there or the right click button curves over the side leading to accidental clicks, i've had mine for 5 years hard use and it's still going strong, i used the software once to save my sensitivity to the on-board memory and haven't needed it since.

You may already have one, but i highly recommend a cable bungee to prevent pulling the cable and holding it over stuff.

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One thing i've found listening to streamers and Youtubers about their love of the Switch is that they are often just as enamoured with the Steam Deck.

Despite being a bit larger than what i would consider a handheld portable system, it still fills an apparent need to play games portably or in bed, i played a lot of DS in bed and have fond memories of warm and cozy gaming, but i literally fall asleep within 5 minutes these days.

My opinion of the Switch has always been affected by my gaming needs, i don't need a portable device, and besides the first party titles everything looks and performs better on other systems.

So as a viewer from the outside who hasn't taken part in the great first party titles, my perception of Nintendo over the last 7 years has been that of issuing legal threats against amazing fan projects, the launch of an online service that requires you use your phone for voice chat, half assed remasterings of Mario games and making them time limited for artificial scarcity, continuing to rush the development of Pokemon games leaving them unpolished and buggy, the analog drift pandemic requiring a lacklustre pro controller, and an almost complete lack of price cuts, they're still selling the original pattern of the console which has been superseded twice by a hardware update and an OLED model, for £20 less than it launched 7 years ago. If you removed the gimmicks and made a home only model without the screen, battery, detachable controllers, gyros, dock and whatever else you could probably sell it for £80, but they'd somehow find a way to charge you £200 for the privilege.

My want for a Switch is based pretty much entirely on wanting to play Bayonetta 2, if i had one i'd probably also play Mario Odyssey, Smash Bros... and that might be it.

It's pretty much just games, or watching game related things on youtube.

@mach_go_go_go: You've got it, it's just where for most F2P games i've played i feel like i'm getting access to 60% of an experience that requires i spend money to progress, Genshin is just 100% with extras if you want them.

It depends what you would consider a "service" to be because for most publishers the requirement just seems to be "things are added", and the quality of those things varies wildly from crappy little cosmetics to actual tangible content.

Call of Duty used to require you to buy new map packs which i guess i'd consider to be an "expansion", buying an add on for the game to make it bigger, whereas offering new maps for free now is a part of their "service", with the intention being that you're grateful and will buy some cosmetics or buy into the battle pass or something, serving you one thing so that they can serve you another thing like a buffet table of junk, but if you don't really care about interacting with the service for more rewards and play casually then it's just fluff in the background.

@mach_go_go_go: Of all the F2P and live service games i've played Genshin is unique, one of the points you missed was the variety and quality of the events and updates they have, a big update will add whole new areas of the game full of quests, story and new characters, where smaller updates and events will have meaningful questlines, activities and minigames which vary from PVP game modes (in a single player game), puzzles, shooting galleries, combat challenges and... like i just did today, a little timing based cooking minigame.

Genshin doesn't pester you with payments, it relies on quality content to lure people into playing gacha for new characters which hey, it's a F2P game of course it wants you to spend money, but the "service" part of it blows me away with its variety of fun new content big and small.

My love for the game is entirely because of the Endurance Run, never played it myself, i even bought the anime and it was fantastically faithful to the game i highly recommend it.

@av_gamer: I got Raiden on my first pull :P, not to... rub it in or anything, i actually wanted Chevreuse then on my 2nd pull i got her twice, that was a good banner.

So far the only thing i could say it's guilty of is having the option to spend money, put a store in any game and there will be people who spend too much, but i've been pressured to spend more in games like For Honor and Call of Duty more than Genshin, Diablo Immortal was pretty gross, i've seen the monetisation in Diablo 4 and that's pretty off putting too, you could ignore it but knowing it's there sucks.

edit: Oh my god i just remembered a spent a couple months playing Dungeon Fighter Online that was craaaazy with store ads.